Staff Engineer

Role Overview

• As a Staff Software Engineer at Alpaca India, you will be a strategic technical leader responsible for architecting, designing, and establishing the foundational software systems that power Alpaca's financial infrastructure
• Your primary responsibility will be setting the technical direction for our software engineering practices, establishing architectural standards and patterns, and ensuring our systems meet regulatory compliance requirements while maintaining world-class reliability, scalability, and performance
• You will demonstrate exceptional technical depth and breadth across software engineering, serving as the recognized expert in system design, architecture, and performance optimization
• You will independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives, resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization, and establish high standards for quality through innovative design solutions and engineering excellence
• Your influence extends across the entire engineering organization, shaping software strategy, setting organizational processes and standards, and driving long-term technical vision
• In addition to software development, you will also establish strategic approaches for infrastructure coordination with our on-premise data center operations in GIFT City

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of architecting and building complex, production systems at scale
• Exceptional technical competency recognized across the organization and industry, with deep expertise across multiple areas including design, architecture, and performance optimization
• Expert-level mastery of Go or similar backend languages, with exceptional system design and architecture skills, and the ability to establish organizational architectural standards
• Proven track record of building scalable, high-availability applications that handle complex business logic and high transaction volumes, with experience establishing organizational scalability patterns
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and system design principles, with the ability to establish organizational engineering practices
• Extensive experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, pub/sub systems, and asynchronous processing patterns, with the ability to establish organizational architectural patterns
• Proven ability to independently lead complex, multi-team software initiatives and resolve systemic issues that impact the entire organization
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems and establish preventive measures
• Extensive experience with testing methodologies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, with the ability to establish organizational testing standards
• Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with strategic understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Go

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card